net/tls: Fixed race condition in async encryption
On processors with multi-engine crypto accelerators, it is possible that multiple records get encrypted in parallel and their encryption completion is notified to different cpus in multicore processor. This leads to the situation where tls_encrypt_done() starts executing in parallel on different cores. In current implementation, encrypted records are queued to tx_ready_list in tls_encrypt_done(). This requires addition to linked list 'tx_ready_list' to be protected. As tls_decrypt_done() could be executing in irq content, it is not possible to protect linked list addition operation using a lock. To fix the problem, we remove linked list addition operation from the irq context. We do tx_ready_list addition/removal operation from application context only and get rid of possible multiple access to the linked list. Before starting encryption on the record, we add it to the tail of tx_ready_list. To prevent tls_tx_records() from transmitting it, we mark the record with a new flag 'tx_ready' in 'struct tls_rec'. When record encryption gets completed, tls_encrypt_done() has to only update the 'tx_ready' flag to true & linked list add operation is not required. The changed logic brings some other side benefits. Since the records are always submitted in tls sequence number order for encryption, the tx_ready_list always remains sorted and addition of new records to it does not have to traverse the linked list. Lastly, we renamed tx_ready_list in 'struct tls_sw_context_tx' to 'tx_list'. This is because now, the some of the records at the tail are not ready to transmit. Fixes: a42055e8 ("net/tls: Add support for async encryption") Signed-off-by: Vakul Garg <vakul.garg@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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